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My company is moving away from datacenter and into Azure and I have to get the az900 this week, it doesnt bode well. And I was so happy to leave the clusterfuc

• cmcconomy 5y ago
  There are things I like, such as the consistent and pervasive security model with Azure AD. I don't even mind running stuff on App Services. I just find their commodity serverless offering in particular is subpar
  • meekins 5y ago
    > consistent and pervasive security model with Azure AD Wait, this is the first time I hear this about Azure. Could you elaborate? It is possible that things have improved significantly since I last worked with Azure but lack of a consistent security model (like IAM on AWS) to control human and service (Azure Functions, App Service apps etc) access to specific resources (Cosmos databases, EventHubs etc) especially painful.
    • cmcconomy 5y ago
      some of it is wonky, such as the login model for postgres on Azure SQL (you create login-capable postgres groups that exactly mirror the name of an Azure AD group, and then the "password" you pass in is actually a JWT proving YOU are in fact a member of that AD group -- so you have to hit a funky endpoint to get a time-limited "password")
• dharmab 5y ago
  Never use Basic SKU, plan your network carefully before you even create the vnets, monitor NAT capacity, beware undocumented ARM rate limits. Good luck
• jamesfinlayson 5y ago
  > 300 aws lambda I'm living that now but moving it out of Lambda and into ECS it as fast as I can.